成千上万的普通百姓是这个大都市的一部分，但他们的家将是易腐烂的武装和茅草，泥石灰和泥土。除了艺术和崇拜的石灰石神庙外，他们生活的每一个痕迹现在都回到了地球上。雄心勃勃的事物比每日面包高。
(Thousands of ordinary people were part of this metropolis, but their homes would have been perishable wattle and thatch, stuccoed with lime and mud. Every trace of their living has returned to the earth now, except for the limestone temples of art and worship. The things made of ambition, which rise higher than daily bread.)